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Re: Time Increments
Sorry, I thought you might have been joking to the effect that I was being tedious in explaining a service vs. a program (I did so partly in an attempt to clarify my own distinction). Providing 'compensation' to members for a CFC membership hike was my own choice of phrase for providing one or more new services along with it (I didn't at all have giving money back in mind, if anyone thought that). With a service being something provided to any member. Programs are not necessarily provided to all members to benefit from, at any given time, was my understanding. I'm not currently a Governor (I try to keep my current status showing under my chesstalk avatar).
Providing a server (a service) costs money to the CFC, but so can running a program (e.g. for juniors).
If the CFC runs some sort of a better funded junior program after hiking my CFC membership, as a member who happens to be an adult I don't at all consider I'm personally being 'compensated' for the hike. If the CFC provided a chess server that I can use cheaper than if I was not a CFC member, I'd consider that compensation for the fee hike even if I seldom used the server myself.
To correct an earlier post, I believe at one time the CFC had some sort of a credit card system for adult members, using a card that doubled as a membership card if an updated sticker was put on at. I think I confused that with the idea of the CFC ever providing discounts on hotel/travel expenses to members. Pardon me, but some days my brain is foggier than others, at least until several cups of coffee set in.
[edit: fwiw, I was designated 'Program Co-ordinator' a couple of years ago, as far as merely being an email contact for anyone wanting to be listed as a Canadian chess instructor on the CFC website (I would pass on the info to the Treasurer, who happened to be the one to update the website). Such a 'program' (which is what the CFC decided to refer to this as) doesn't even necessarily benefit CFC members (either the instructors or students might not be CFC members), and it is at no cost to the CFC . Later I asked to be replaced by last year's AGM if possible, but this has not happened yet. A 'program' that does cost the CFC some money (but not much) when grants are requested from time to time even nowadays, afaik, is the one I mentioned in an earlier post, namely the Local Tournament Incentive Program.]
Sorry, I thought you might have been joking to the effect that I was being tedious in explaining a service vs. a program (I did so partly in an attempt to clarify my own distinction). Providing 'compensation' to members for a CFC membership hike was my own choice of phrase for providing one or more new services along with it (I didn't at all have giving money back in mind, if anyone thought that). With a service being something provided to any member. Programs are not necessarily provided to all members to benefit from, at any given time, was my understanding. I'm not currently a Governor (I try to keep my current status showing under my chesstalk avatar).
Providing a server (a service) costs money to the CFC, but so can running a program (e.g. for juniors).
If the CFC runs some sort of a better funded junior program after hiking my CFC membership, as a member who happens to be an adult I don't at all consider I'm personally being 'compensated' for the hike. If the CFC provided a chess server that I can use cheaper than if I was not a CFC member, I'd consider that compensation for the fee hike even if I seldom used the server myself.
To correct an earlier post, I believe at one time the CFC had some sort of a credit card system for adult members, using a card that doubled as a membership card if an updated sticker was put on at. I think I confused that with the idea of the CFC ever providing discounts on hotel/travel expenses to members. Pardon me, but some days my brain is foggier than others, at least until several cups of coffee set in.
[edit: fwiw, I was designated 'Program Co-ordinator' a couple of years ago, as far as merely being an email contact for anyone wanting to be listed as a Canadian chess instructor on the CFC website (I would pass on the info to the Treasurer, who happened to be the one to update the website). Such a 'program' (which is what the CFC decided to refer to this as) doesn't even necessarily benefit CFC members (either the instructors or students might not be CFC members), and it is at no cost to the CFC . Later I asked to be replaced by last year's AGM if possible, but this has not happened yet. A 'program' that does cost the CFC some money (but not much) when grants are requested from time to time even nowadays, afaik, is the one I mentioned in an earlier post, namely the Local Tournament Incentive Program.]
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